BitTorrent tracker announce flooding NGinx logs

Server NGINX
1

Hello,

I recently installed Transmission 2.03.
Since then I get my NGinx error log flooded with messages like "[error]
21475#0: *6383 open() “/var/web/tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce”
failed
(2: No such file or directory), client: 127.0.0.1, server:
~mydomain.com$,
request: “GET /announce?info_hash=”

It seems there is a misconfiguration somewhere. Could you help me on
that
point?

Many thanks,

B. R.

2

On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:38:39 -0500 “B.R.” [email protected]
wrote:

I recently installed Transmission 2.03.
Since then I get my NGinx error log flooded with messages like "[error]
21475#0: *6383 open() “/var/web/tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce” failed
(2: No such file or directory), client: 127.0.0.1, server: ~mydomain.com$,
request: “GET /announce?info_hash=”

It seems there is a misconfiguration somewhere. Could you help me on that
point?

the misconfiguration is here:
$ host tracker.thepiratebay.org
tracker.thepiratebay.org has address 127.0.0.1

it’s typical for disabled trackers to get pointed to localhost
(instead of pulled from dns completely).
nothing you can do about that really, at best some workaround to stop
those
requests from ending up in your log.
(it’s generally a good idea to set up a dummy default virtualhost that
is not
used in production just so all the spam ends up in it’s log.)

  • T.
3

OK
I can also use my hosts file to redirect the old tracker to a new
tracker :slight_smile:

Thanks for the help, I am relieved: I thought I didn’t do things
properly
C ya

B. R.